Board Diversity

As part of our grant application, organizations provide the demographics of their board members. When looking at the people who serve on these boards, we found that the majority (68 percent) were white.

Assistance with board diversification is often a topic of conversation with our grantee partners. Moving forward, we see Health Forward playing an important role in building the capacity of Kansas City’s regional nonprofit ecosystem. One example of how we are thinking about this work is the KC Health Equity Learning Action Network, which includes more than 50 organizations partnering to instill antiracism, equity, community, and humanity into our regional health ecosystem.

Native American/ American Indian/ Indigenous

Hispanic/Latino/ Latinx 1% 21%

When looking at the people who serve on our grantee organizations’ boards, we found that the majority (68 percent) were white.

White/Caucasian/ European

68%

Asian American/ Pacific Islander/ Asian

7% 5